9/22 Roster Moves - Wells up, Baumann optioned

[Morgan423]

From the team transaction page:

09/22/23	Baltimore Orioles recalled RHP Tyler Wells from Norfolk Tides.
09/22/23	Baltimore Orioles optioned RHP Mike Baumann to Norfolk Tides.

[frankwhite]

Hope he can come up and be solid. We need it

[SteveA]

So the rule that Baumann has to stay down 15 days...   Does it still apply even though Norfolk's season will end either next Wednesday or Thursday, whenever their best of 3 championship series ends?

Also, though I hope it doesn't come to this... if we lose the division and are the wild card, would the 15 day rule prevent Baumann from being on the roster for the Wild Card Series Oct 3-4-5?

[baltfan]

If they need Baumann in the Wild Card they are going to be in real trouble, but agree would be nice to know.  I like this move.  

[Morgan423]

I searched all over the MLB glossary entries for rosters and post season eligibility, and this scenario (the end of the season and if it resets optioned player eligibility regardless of how long they've been down) isn't specifically addressed anywhere. 

So I have no idea if that's business as usual, or if it's different and the league just doesn't have it publicly published.  

[Billy F-Face3]

I thought people were saying Wells was washed up for the season and getting hit all over by minor leaguers from dead arm? 

Not sure how replacing one tired arm who's reduced to Batting Practice pitches for another helps us any.

[Billy F-Face3]

Cole Irvin never should have been sent down this month.

[Morgan423]

2 minutes ago, Billy F-Face3 said:

I thought people were saying Wells was washed up for the season and getting hit all over by minor leaguers from dead arm? 

Not sure how replacing one tired arm who's reduced to Batting Practice pitches for another helps us any.

Sadly, our 40 man options were Wells and Zimmermann, no one else was eligible yet.  At first I thought we had injury replacement ability, but I'd forgotten that we'd called up McKenna for Mountcastle's.

[SteveA]

1 hour ago, Billy F-Face3 said:

I thought people were saying Wells was washed up for the season and getting hit all over by minor leaguers from dead arm? 

Not sure how replacing one tired arm who's reduced to Batting Practice pitches for another helps us any.

It might not.   The good news is Wells was hitting 97MPH in Norfolk.   More than he was in Baltimore earlier in the year (as a starter).   The bad news is the results were not good statistically.

I imagine Elias looks at things a lot more than a small sample size of minor league result-based stats.   If his Statcast stuff says that giving him the light workload from late July until now has improved his velocity, spin rate, or whatever other stuff they look at... maybe it's good.

Maybe he isn't the savior, but we can certainly use a change in the bullpen.   I think most of us agree the Irvin demotion was a mistake but it can't be undone, until the Boston series, so this is probably the best change we can make at this time.

[TopGunnar]

Where is Cole Irvin

[Il BuonO]

15 minutes ago, TopGunnar said:

Where is Cole Irvin

Norfolk